Life has been hectic recently. Not long ago I just made a "come back" post and welcomed myself after a long break, immediately I went missing in action. I've got myself some really lame excuse of finding job, but at the same time lame enough to accept the fact that not many job left for me to pursuit.
Let me start this post with the almighty "pedestrain" walk at Pavillion Built Jalil. Home minister discovered it and asked me if this is new technology, something like a train for pedestrians boarding and cross the complicated multilevel highway.
Which later prove that, it just just a pedestrian bridge. Anyway, let's roll back a little earlier when home minister invited me to be her driver when she go rob the bank drop a document, so I can wait in the car. And the wait took longer than we expected(as usual Malaysian timing that usually 45 minutes delay), so I had to park at the new mall and find something to do rather than sitting in the car and breathing unknown toxic gas.
Immediately as I walked through the door, there's this very beautiful rice art decorated at the middle of the hall. If you do not know, we Malaysian celebrates Diwali, an Indian light celebration.
Pavilion is a brand, a high end shopping mall operator first introduced in Kuala Lumpur, they called it Pavillion Kuala Lumpur. This, being another successful giant outlet in Bukit Jalil, they name it as Pavilion Bukit Jalil. However, the typical Malaysian mentality, this very high end branding mall fall victim to our given name, Pavillion 2 😅
How is Pavillion 2 wrong? Technically, nothing wrong to put a number to it, since this is the 2nd mall they built from the same brand. However, think of it this way, do you name your local Costco 356 since the previous outlet they opened was 355? No right?
Therefore, I think the number thing indeed make this mall feel less important to the local community and I personally think it is Pavilion's job to promote and try to educate the people to understand this mall is just as important as the one in Kuala Lumpur. It doesn't have to be 2 😂
Think of it this way, Arnold Schwarzenegger was the champion at 1975 Mr. Olympia, who is the first runner up? 😂
Despite the mall being officiated for a year now, but it's still less than half occupancies. From what I saw, majority of the famous brand already opened their outlet here, the rest of shops are still sealed with wood plank.
Technically, I have very little feeling about this mall whether can it survived in the future. I don't stay around this area anyway, but I don't hate it. It's new, it's comfortable, it's huge, and have decent AC. But if Pavilion really want to keep up with their branding, they need to seriously consider to hire more Facebooker to educate the people. The next project being Pavilion Damansara, and I already hearing people mentioned to me Pavilion 3 🤣
I can see they also erected a huge gold colour bull at the top floor and set a record, the largest golden bull in Malaysia 🤣 seriously, I don't even pay attention to the fact sheet by the bull, I was just thinking how bizarre they did this to pull attention. I guess it's either die trying or don't mentality. No wonder this become number 2.
There's at least 3 mall that I know in KL Selangor region has an ice skating ring. This, probably is the smallest I've seen in my life. If I haven't mentioned, we don't have winter here. Having the feeling of frozen balls is what most if not all Malaysian enjoy the most.
And the best idea being, setup a small cafe in the ice skating ring and sell hot coffee. Be sure to make it cheap for sending children here, so their Oldman can sit there chill their balls and drink crazily expensive hot coffee 🤣
See what I mean? It is actually quite affordable for the kids to enjoy themselves here. I'm lazy to do the conversion as our currency is falling like a rock, but if you're interested to find out in dollar, divide these value by 5, you'll roughly get the idea in Merican Dollah
There's so much food shop that I had to delete more than half of the pictures I've snapped to make way for the upload as my bandwidth is so huge probably my hair can't go through.
And, other than the largest golden bull, this is probably the first 3D rice art I've seen in my life. I personally think this rice art is much more attractive compare to the gold bull.
There's enough sunlight since the mall being designed with many plate glass attached to it. I have always love this kind of settings.
This gold shop has nothing to do with the mall visit, simply snap this photo to ask 
One of the entrance has a very nice tunnel gate with Chinese New year decoration. Well, it's still 4 months ahead until next Chinese New year, isn't it a little too early? Or this way this year's new year and been there for more than half a year 🤣
We walked through the Pedestrain (nope not a typo, this is exactly how that Engrish came) bridge and found ourself at the connecting bridge to another extended building, which we originally thought there's still more shops.
And looking back into the area, it's really huge. Mind you what you saw is only the 3rd floor and above. There's more underground shops beneath that road.
And we met a dead end. Apparently it does not connect to a mall, it's residence. So we had to turn back and continue to explore for food.
And lately I went to a Sichuan spicy shop with a friend, and it reminds me so much about the spicy experience I had back in 2011. Seeing they're about to open another spicy shop here, I can't help it but to snap this photo and send to him.
And off we continue to browse the lower ground floor and found more eateries, and crazy amount of people here queuing up for food. It's just amazing on the high contrast neon light design bringing in crowd. I'm guessing, these food shops are probably the anchor tenant for this entire dead mall in the future.
After struggling several hours in the super mall, blast my head with different kind of attractive restaurants, Overwhelmingly lot of people queuing up for food, I found myself ended up in a coffee shop 20km away, happily enjoying my fish ball noodle at the price of probably ⅕ of what i should've been paying at that mall 🤣
